Improvement in spectacle-holders



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G. MEYER.

S'PEC'IIACLE HOLDER.

Patented Jan.4,1876. v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GUSTAVUS MEYER, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JULIUS FRANKE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPECTACLE-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 71,681, dated January 4, 1876; application filed October 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUsTAvUs MEYER, of the city of Quincy, county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Spectacle Holders; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation, with spectacles attached, and Fig. 2 a side elevation with spectacles removed.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective holder for spectacles, which may be attached to the clothing of the wearer by means of a brooch-pin, and is intended to be a substitute for the ordinary spectacle-case.

A and A represent two clamp-hooks or jaws, which are secured to the upper and-lower ends of the serpentine spring B B, in such a manner as to allow them to be advanced toward each other by compressing the spring B. Attached to the lower end of the spring B is a piece of wire, 0, which is arched or bent backward upon itself at the upper end of the spring B. Its lower end is sharpened, and near the point it engages with the brooch hook or catch D. The upper and lower coils of the spring B are bent in such a manner as to allow the wire 0 to pass in front of them,

and behind the rest of the coils of the spring comes in contact with the arch of the bent wire 0 at F. I

The operation of the device is as follows: Let the upper lens-frame of a pair of spectacles be hooked into the upper clamps A, as shown in Fig. 1. The spring Bis then compressed by slightly pulling on the lower lens-frame until the clamp hooks have been brought sufticiently near each other to allow the lens-frame to pass under the clamp A. The spring is now released, and instantly separates the clamphooks A and A, and securely holds the spectacles in the position indicated in Fig. 1.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a spectacle-holder, the two movable jaws or clamp-hooks A and A and the connecting-spring B, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the clamp-hooks A and A, the spring B, and the brooch-pin O, substantially as'and for the purpose described.

' GUSTAVUS MEYER.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. HooH, Tnos. B. HARRISON. 

